European Democratic Union

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the group in the European Parliament. For the wing of the International Democrat Union, see European Democrat Union.

European Democratic Union
European Parliament group
Name	European Democratic Union^[1]^[2]
English abbr.	n/a
French abbr.	UDE^[3]
Formal name	European Democratic Union Group^[4]^[5]
Ideology	Gaullism
From	21 January 1965^[3]
To	16 January 1973^[3]
Preceded by	new creation
Succeeded by	Group of European Progressive Democrats
Chaired by	Louis Terrenoire (1966),^[6] Jean-Noël de Lipkowski (1967),^[5]^[6] Raymond Triboulet (1968)^[6]
MEP(s)	15 (1965/66)^[6]

The European Democratic Union Group was a Gaullist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1965 and 1973.

History

The French Gaullists split from the Liberal Group on 21 January 1965^[3] and created a new Group called the "European Democratic Union",^[1]^[2] (not to be confused with the association of Conservative and Christian Democrat parties founded in 1978 called the "European Democrat Union" or "EDU", nor the Conservative Group called the "European Democratic Group" founded in 1979). The Group was renamed on 16 January 1973^[3] to the "Group of European Progressive Democrats"^[4] when the Gaullists were joined by the Irish Fianna Fáil.

Sources

References

Political groups of the European Parliament

European People's Party (273)
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (195)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (84)
The Greens–European Free Alliance (58)
European Conservatives and Reformists (57)
Europe of Freedom and Democracy (35)
European United Left–Nordic Green Left (33)
Non-Inscrits (30)

Previous groups

Far-Right Nationalists	European Right (1984–1989) European Right (1989–1994) Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (2007)

National Conservatives	European Democratic Union (1965–1973) European Progressive Democrats (1973–1984) European Democratic Alliance (1984–1995) Union for Europe (1995–1999) Union for Europe of the Nations (1999–2009)

Christian Democrats/Conservatives	Christian Democrats (1953–1979) European People's Party (1979–1999) European Conservatives (1973–1979) European Democrats (1979–1992) Forza Europa (1994–1995) European People's Party–European Democrats (1999–2009)

Liberals/Centrists	Liberals and Allies (1953–1976) Liberals and Democrats (1976–1985) Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group (1985–1994) European Radical Alliance (1994–1999) European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (1994–2004)

Social Democrats	Socialists (1953–1993) Group of the Party of European Socialists (1993-2009)

Communists/Far-Left	Communists and Allies (1973–1989) European United Left (1989–1993) Left Unity (1989–1994) European United Left (1994–1995)

Greens/Regionalists	Rainbow Group (1984–1989) Rainbow Group (1989–1994) Greens (1989–1999)

Eurosceptics	Europe of Nations (1994–1996) Independents for a Europe of Nations (1996–1999) Europe of Democracies and Diversities (1999–2004) Independence/Democracy (2004–2009)

Heterogeneous	Technical Group of Independents (1979–1984) Technical Group of Independents (1999–2001)

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.